“This book demonstrates the benefits of taking a key aesthetic concept and using it to frame detailed explorations of particular films.
The Pulp Fiction reading is revelatory and all film examples are probed insightfully and with precision.” (Tom Brown, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London, UK) Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
The elegant prose offers first-rate analysis, achieving, for example, the considerable feat of adding very sophisticatedly to the great scholarship on Max Ophuls and his Madame De… in particular. Coherence is the strange story of eight friends who meet for dinner on the night the Millers Comet is passing over the Earth. On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. “This book represents a timely intervention in reconsidering the legacy of the work of VF Perkins and other critics strongly invested in the concept of “coherence”.